mittimus

American  

[mit-uh-muhs] / ˈmɪt ə məs /

noun

Law.

plural

mittimuses

1. a warrant of commitment to prison.

2. a writ for removing a suit or a record from one court to another.

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mittimus British  

/ ˈmɪtɪməs /

noun

1. law a warrant of commitment to prison or a command to a jailer directing him to hold someone in prison

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Etymology

Origin of mittimus

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin: we send, first word of such a writ; remit

Example Sentences

There was scarcely a sinewy and dangerous problem in his treatise, which he had not worked with his own limbs upon the Nottinghamshire peasantry of 1705—when he was young, lusty, and learned, and could throw a tenant, combat a paradox, quote Martial, or sign a mittimus, with any man of his own age or country.

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Fetch me pen and ink somebody, and I'll fill in the mittimus.

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Make his mittimus to the Hole at Newgate.

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It was decided that the arrest of Alexander Sullivan should be effected without delay, notwithstanding the late hour, and the Coroner, having made out his mittimus, entrusted it to Detective Palmer.

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"I have a mittimus for your arrest, Mr. Sullivan."

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